[Solar-talk] UI Widgets

[Rodrigo Moraes]

On 7/18/06, Paul M Jones wrote:
> I am interested in this too; as you said earlier, having a set of
> Solar_View_Helper classes for these kinds of things would be
> fantastic.  I wouldn't call them "widgets" exactly, but I know what
> you mean.  (Let's not forget "tables" and "grids".  ;-)

Ok, another name is needed and some concept definitions. From Wikipedia:

Widget: "A widget (or control) is an interface component that a
computer user interacts with" [...]

Widget toolkits: "Widget toolkits (or GUI toolkits) are sets of basic
building units for graphical user interfaces."

In Solar words, I think the Widget toolkits are the View helpers. They
are very much related to Widgets - a Calendar would use "view helper
units" to be built. Right? I wonder if widgets need to be separated or
put under helper folders? For example, I need a widget right now - a
"pagination navbar". There is no pagination library in Solar, so it
will be a helper that wraps Pear::Pager. Let's see how it can use
other helpers to be built. Thoughts welcome!

cheers,
rodrigo moraes / brazil

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_%28computing%29
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_toolkit